iFanboy’s Best of 2012: The Best Covers

Each friday, well most fridays in 2012, we showcased the best comics covers on the shelves. On this, the last friday of the year, we’re counting down the top 30, featuring some of the best artists in the industry, a few promising newcomers and some fairly atypical artists as well. Some covers offer full, self-contained stories or definitive portraits, while others suggest theme or tone. Some are simply terrific compositions, even thoughtful homages to images from the past. These 30 images are linked only by their excellence and their ability to tantalize. They practically leapt from the shelves.

Some cool covers there, but a lot that just don’t wow me. Saga #1 should have won. It looked cool and was so shocking!

Jenny Frison’s covers for Image’s Revival have been great. Lots of great stuff from Image this year.

And the only book from DC’s New 52 that made it was Men of War #8? I mean, c’mon.

Some of these choices I don’t get (Defenders #10?) and some leave me cold (Scalped #59). I just feel like there was a ton of good stuff this year that didn’t make this list, and a bunch of iffy stuff that did.